Villagers travel 2 km daily to fetch water

Problem
caused due to motor damage of ground water, villagers can’t get drinking water
in their village

A villager carrying jar to fetch drinking water from Golahalli village

Pump
is out of order for 1 year, no action taken.

People
who are living in the Kenchanapalya village are finding difficult to fetch the
drinking water for them and for their family. They have to travel 2 km away, to
get the water. In Kenchanapalya over 100 families use rainwater for their
household needs and for their animals. They have to take bus or other
transport, to fetch the drinking water from the Golahalli Panchayat.

Golahalli
Gram Panchayat President Mahesh K M informed The Observer “we don’t have enough
funds for maintenance and to arrange RO water for the villagers of
Kenchanapalya. We are trying to make some arrangement because water is the
basic need of an individual”.

The Zila Panchayat already passed the bill for the RO purifier
for the village but from last 1 year no action is taken by the President.

When
The Observer approached the one
villager Jayshankar K B he said “Two years ago the government identified a
place for paid purified water, but so far they have not set up the machines.
Every time they will come up with insufficient fund. Some are using rain water
for drinking that causing health issue.

Women
of the villager have to leave their household chores and get water. “It takes
me 30 minutes to reach, because there are no regular buses between these
villages,” Urmila Gowda said

The
villagers went to MLA B. Nagendra and requested him to solve the problem; he promised them he would
forward their complaint to the higher authorities.

Former
Panchayat Member K M Bhaswa Raj said “The
body is not working properly and not taking any initiative to find a solution.
The Centre has allotted funds for water to every Gram Panchayat, but the
Kenchanapalya villagers are not getting water from last 1 year.

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